From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 15:06:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA29294 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29283 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA11003; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:06:40 -0600 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:06:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Joel Yancey To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.5R installation troubles In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, i would have beleived it was the fact the Freebsd.org was loaded, but it did this everytime in the bindist after re-starting the install at LEAST 15 times.....so i dont think that is the case. but yet, the same day, my friend installed it no problem, the user distro. i tried the minimal, user, kern-developer, ect.. none worked. and eventaully it will get passed and continue the download, and it'll stop some where between the 12-15 meg range, and never come back, all routes are still inplace. Thanks, Joel yancey On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Joel Yancey wrote: > > > ok, i boot up with the boot.flp, run the upgrade (or novice installion, > > tried them both) and it runs great, until the FTP, then it ALWAYS stops > > at 1225100, and then if you wait a VERY long time, like an hour, it'll > > possible get more, or it'll timeout and hang up. most of the time it > > times out, and asks me if i want to try to get more, and i answer yes, it > > gets the doc, although it pauses about every meg or so, and then it goes > > on. > > Hm. ftp.freebsd.org is pretty loaded right now, it may be hanging on a > new 'get' command. Or your link may be timing out at just that point. Is > this in the bindist? > > Take a look at the debug screen (ALT-F2) and look for any errors. > > > the first part of my install my com2 wouldnt work, and com1 i cant use > > becuase for some reason i always loose my route to my ISP. but i got that > > working fine as of now, but a friend of mine also had to swtch com ports > > from 1 to 2 instead of like me 2 to 1, because it would talk to the > > modem, on neither of our computers. > > This is due to a misconfiguration of the sio ports or your BIOS. FreeBSD > uses the standard settings for the sio ports and if they don't probe then > your BIOS was changed. > > Nothing can conflict with the sio devices. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >